483: Chapter 483 The Great Changes to the Teleportation Gate

Twelve hours later.

Panshi Hub Base, Medical Area, Consultation Room No. 3.

Dozens of experts were crowded into a room of less than eighty square meters.

The walls were covered with Su Mingyuan's brain images, Meridian scans, spiritual power fluctuation curves, and a pile of spectral analysis data that no one could understand.

A thick stack of test reports was spread out on the table, the papers piled so high they were almost reaching the ceiling.

Wang Jianguo stood at the very front, holding an MRI report, reading it over and over again three times.

"All indicators are normal; there are no organic lesions in the brain."

He put the report down and looked at Zhou Dehua beside him.

Zhou Dehua pushed up his reading glasses and shook his head.

"Nerve conduction velocity is normal, the EEG is normal, and the waveform is even more stable than that of an ordinary person. I have worked in neurology for forty years, and I have never seen a comatose patient with an EEG like this."

Zhao Shou stood in the corner, his hands tucked into his white coat pockets.

"A comatose patient's EEG shouldn't look like this. His waveform is more regular than any healthy person I've ever seen. This doesn't look like a coma; it looks more like he's meditating."

Qian Maolin squatted on the floor, flipping through a spiritual power test report, his slippers scuffing against the floor.

"The circulation of spiritual power is also normal, the Meridians are not blocked, and the Dantian is normal. If anyone says this person is sick, I'll be the first not to believe it."

The consultation room went quiet for a few seconds.

Sun Yiming, who came from Hu City, spoke up.

"I performed a set of consciousness disorder assessment scales, but the GCS score is not applicable to this situation. He has no response to external stimuli, but his brainstem reflexes are all normal, his spontaneous breathing is normal, his pupils are equal and round, and his light reflex is sensitive."

He paused for a moment.

"To put it simply, his body is awake, but his consciousness is not here."

Wang Jianguo frowned.

"What do you mean his consciousness is not here?"

Sun Yiming glanced at Tao Zhe, who was standing at the door.

Tao Zhe hesitated for a moment before walking in.

"Professors, let me explain. Group Leader Su is a Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage. Cultivators above the Foundation Establishment Stage possess Divine Sense. We haven't fully understood the relationship between Divine Sense and the brain yet, but it can be simply understood as Divine Sense being a higher-level carrier of consciousness."

He paused.

"Our hypothesis is that Group Leader Su's Divine Sense is trapped within his own Sea of Consciousness."

The consultation room fell silent.

Dozens of the nation's top medical experts looked at each other.

They were the best brain specialists in all of Daxia, but words like "Divine Sense trapped in the Sea of Consciousness" were beyond their professional scope.

Li Huifang stood up from the back row.

"Dr. Tao, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, we talk about mental clouding. Is it possible to use acupuncture to open the orifices? Acupoints like Baihui, Renzhong, and Yongquan, combined with spiritual power stimulation, might have some effect."

Tao Zhe shook his head.

"We've tried. Sun Liang performed three rounds of acupuncture with spiritual power, and there was no reaction."

Li Huifang sat back down.

Chen Qingsong from Chang'an was flipping through the data in his hands when he suddenly looked up.

"What about Medicinal Pills?"

Everyone looked at him.

"Don't we still have the rejuvenation pill and the ningshen pill? The rejuvenation pill heals the body, and the ningshen pill heals the Divine Sense. Have we tried using both together?"

Tao Zhe was silent for a second.

"We haven't tried that."

He glanced in the direction of the corridor.

"I'll arrange it right away."

Half an hour later.

In the medical room, Sun Liang crushed one rejuvenation pill and one ningshen pill separately, dissolved them in warm water, and administered them into Su Mingyuan's stomach via a nasogastric tube.

Everyone stared at the data on the monitor.

Five minutes passed.

Ten minutes passed.

The data showed no changes at all.

Heart rate was 62, blood oxygen was 98, and brain waves were stable.

It was as if what had been fed to him was just plain water; there was no change whatsoever.

Chen Qingsong leaned in to look at the monitor and then stepped back.

"The Medicinal Pills didn't work?"

Sun Liang bit his lip.

"The spiritual power of the Medicinal Pills has already been absorbed by his body, but... it has had no effect on his Divine Sense."

Tao Zhe stood by the window, tapping his fingers on the windowsill.

"Try the youth-preserving pill next."

Sun Liang was stunned for a moment.

"The youth-preserving pill? Isn't the youth-preserving pill used for extending life?"

"Just try it." Tao Zhe's voice was a bit hoarse. "Try every method we can."

Sun Liang didn't say anything more and turned to get the medicine.

A youth-preserving pill was fed to him.

Still, there was no change at all.

"Beep, beep, beep, beep~~~~"

Just at this moment, Tao Zhe's communicator rang.

He looked down; it was the encrypted channel from the Tianmen Base duty room.

Tao Zhe glanced towards the medical room, then turned and walked to the corner of the corridor to answer it.

"Dr. Tao, this is the Tianmen duty room, urgent report."

"Speak."

"The energy readings of the five portals are experiencing abnormal fluctuations and have been continuously rising over the past two hours. The area of the portals has expanded by ten percent."

Tao Zhe's fingers paused.

Ten percent.

This number might not mean much in other contexts.

But the portals are different.

Over the past whole year, the total area of the five portals had only expanded by ten percent.

Now, in just a few hours, it had caught up to an entire year's worth of growth.

"Have you confirmed it?"

"We restarted the detection System twice, and the data is consistent. But we aren't sure, so we cannot rule out the possibility of instrument error, and we request the research group to confirm."

Tao Zhe didn't answer immediately.

He squeezed the communicator and turned his head to look at the medical room.

"Things on Group Leader Su's side are more important; I can't go over there right now." Tao Zhe said, "You continue to monitor, record the data every ten minutes, and report any changes to me immediately."

"Understood."

Tao Zhe hung up the communicator.

He leaned against the wall and rubbed his face with his palms.

Su Mingyuan couldn't wake up, and the portals were having issues again.

Either one of these things, taken alone, would be a sky-collapsing disaster.

But now, these things had happened to coincide.

He took a deep breath, preparing to return to the medical room first.

To think of other methods.

The communicator rang again.

It was still the Tianmen duty room.

Tao Zhe's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously answered the phone.

"Dr. Tao, the portals have expanded again!"

The duty officer's voice went up half an octave, even tinged with a trace of fear.

"Now all five portals are expanding simultaneously, and the speed is more than ten times faster than before!"

"The largest one has already broken through six hundred meters in height!"

Tao Zhe's brain buzzed.

"What! Six hundred meters!?"

A few days ago, the portal height was only about three hundred meters, and now it had actually reached six hundred meters.

"Is it still growing now?"

"Yes, Dr. Tao! There are no signs of slowing down at all! It has now broken through to eight hundred meters; what should we do now!?"